donbas there. we ve been hearing, including from u.s. officials watching this, that the russians may be improving how they re operating there, moving along parallel lines in this area from izyum here, maybe learning some lessons, spider. what are you seeing in donbas? yeah, what the russians are clearly confronted with, and they have been over the course of the last month, is they ve gotten some incredible beatings in the vicinity of kyiv. they now realize that this is where their initiative needs to be and where putin can claim a victory. so the notion of lessons learned or going through what we call an after-action review process is what the russians are probably doing, but it s not likely that those lessons learned will have an immediate impact on the display and kind of the engagement of forces in this region. number one, they have their battalion training groups, their battalion task groups, they had about 120 of those in advance of the war, they now have about 90
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russia invaded in 2014 and there still are separatists that might be why they re so blaise. what do you make of that statement in. it s really complicated. i did hear one thing from the ukrainian minister of defense estimating that the numbers had to be higher, but i think they are those numbers that courtney mentioned at the outset where those 30 battalion task groups are coming to the border soon so they may change what they re saying. but they don t want to alarm their people. i think that s important to note. part of putin s game is to see whether the government in kyiv can crack.
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